Download or read book Pedagogical Pleasures written by Erica McWilliam and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical Pleasures inquires into pleasure (understood as enjoyment, delight, and/or gratification) as a crucial but neglected aspect of teachers' lives and work. Pleasure is examined as an historically contingent and unstable product of language use, rather than as a spontaneous, personal, and psychological«feeling.» This book is a departure from conventional accounts of pedagogy in two ways It is unashamedly about teachers rather than students, and it does not offer any solution to pedagogical problems. Instead, it seeks to extend pedagogical knowledge by inquiring into the sorts of pleasure that are available to teachers at this historical time.